There's a story in today's @THISDAYLIVE where Emma Nwaka, @OfficialPDPNig's chairman in Abia is pleading with @HQNigerianArmy "to exercise restraint in their reprisals on the communities of Obuzor and Owaza,"
You can read it here: bit.ly/3Iup9wh
You can read it here: bit.ly/3Iup9wh
These are the kind of things that tell you that #Nigeria is a banana republic where people have no confidence in the system to a) protect them, and b) give them justice.
Why the fuck should we be pleading with our own army to exercise restraint? What kind of country is this?
Why the fuck should we be pleading with our own army to exercise restraint? What kind of country is this?
Of course, the army has form in this kind of matter.
Starting from Ugep in 1975 where they slaughtered the community because a soldier disappeared?
Later it was found that he was drunk and had died of asphyxiation.
Well, I've listed many before.
Starting from Ugep in 1975 where they slaughtered the community because a soldier disappeared?
Later it was found that he was drunk and had died of asphyxiation.
Well, I've listed many before.
https://twitter.com/Chxta/status/1350048574424420355
Or do we want to talk about Odi?
Or Zaki Biam?
It's barbaric that the very army that is meant to protect #Nigeria's territorial integrity is in reality not much better than an armed gang that goes about brutalising the very people it is meant to serve.
Or Zaki Biam?
It's barbaric that the very army that is meant to protect #Nigeria's territorial integrity is in reality not much better than an armed gang that goes about brutalising the very people it is meant to serve.
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